Saturday, July 27, 2013

Beth M's stumpy cave painting!

Cave painting was harder than it looked! I wrapped soft wood chips with
twine around a stick to create a paintbrush, using both ends. I tried to
create a dark-to-light gradient as a background with the leaves, but it
was a little hard on a stump.
The image is of me watching my son play. I made myself so much larger
because I saw such images on casts from Egyptian temples at the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts. They generally represented kings or masters, I
just wanted to show that I was the mother, and
he the child. I painted myself, and etched him, as I saw some inverted
examples of cave paintings while doing my research, where the subject
was outlined in white, and painted around the borders. I let him put his
personal touch at the bottom of the stump
to make it authentic, and he put a few blobs of mud to contribute.